PHP, where do you go?

Couple of days ago my colleagues and me were discussing the future of programming languages - PHP was also a topic and we were trying to find arguments for our decision should we stick to it or switch to Python. Therefore I am appriciating the hackernews link from today: Frank Karlitschek wrote a very good post on his side concerning the pros and cons of PHP, have a look at it....

October 2, 2014

Hacking with DNS

found those cool slides at hacker news, have a look at them …

September 27, 2014

mounting a software raid-1 member

if you want to mount a raid-1 member in a external system, you should install mdadm and checkout those commands: # Connect harddisk to auto-plugable controller/system # Check which device name was assigned to the pluged-in harddisk tail /var/log/syslog fdisk -l /dev/sdb mkdir /mnt/data mdadm --examine /dev/sdb3 mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/sdb3 mount -o ro /dev/md0 /mnt/data # Read, what you want to read ;) umount /mnt/data mdadm -S /dev/md0 # Remove the harddisk...

September 23, 2014

Corrupted ODS-File

I have had the exact same problem as Azman did, and he found the solution and described it here [1]. After reading his post I’ve decided to take the shortcut and install the xmlindent package first. So here is my approach: # cp FILE.ods BACKUP_FILE.ods # unzip -p FILE.ods content.xml | xmlindent > content.xml # vim content.xml # zip FILE.ods content.xml Thanks Azman, it helped me a lot! [1] http://blog.my1matrix.org/2011/12/libreoffice-tragedy-corrupted-ods-file.html

June 1, 2014

Alternative zu Conrad?

Mein lieber Kollege hat mich auf einen neuen Hardware-Store in Wien aufmerksam gemacht: http://electronics.semaf.at/ Werde mich mal umsehen und dann berichten …

April 23, 2014